This study examined the relationships between defenses and depressive experiences. Two questionnaires, in counterbalanced order, were administered to a community sample of 205 adults: the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ; S. Blatt, J. D’Afflitti, & D. Quinlan 1976, 1979) and the Defense Mechanisms Inventory (DMI; D. Ihilevich & G. C. Gleser, 1986). Although turning against self related...

Model trees which are a type of decision tree with linear regression functions at the leaves form the basis of a recent successful technique for predicting continuous numeric values They can be applied to classi cation problems by employing a standard method of transforming a classi cation problem into a problem of function approximation Surprisingly using this simple transformation the model t...

We read with interest the pilot randomized, controlled trial by Quinlan-Woodward et al. (2016) published in Oncology Nursing Forum about the impact of acupuncture on pain, nausea, anxiety, and coping in women undergoing a mastectomy. We think that there are both theoretical and methodologic issues that do not allow the authors to conclude that their study demonstrated that acupuncture delivered...

This paper describes Rapture | a system for revising probabilistic rule bases that converts symbolic rules into a connectionist network, which is then trained via connectionist techniques. It uses a modi ed version of backpropagation to re ne the certainty factors of the rule base, and uses ID3's information-gain heuristic (Quinlan, 1986) to add new rules. Work is currently under way for nding ...

Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading from quinlan to schiavo medical ethical and legal issues in severe brain injury is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make it as disturbing ac...

On October 2,1979, Brother Joseph Charles Fox, an 83-year-old member of the Society of Mary (Chaminade High School, Mineola, N.Y.), underwent hernia surgery. During the surgery he suffered severe cardiorespiratory arrest, which resulted in diffuse cerebral and brain-stem anoxia. Brother Fox lost spontaneous respiration and had to be maintained on a respirator. His physicians concluded that he w...

Abusive messages (flames) can be both a source of frustration and a waste of time for Internet users. This paper describes some approaches to flame recognition, including a prototype system, Smokey. Smokey builds a 47-element feature vector based on the syntax and semantics of each sentence, combining the vectors for the sentences within each message. A training set of 720 messages was used by ...

In this lab you will implement a Bayes Classifier and the Adaboost algorithm that improves the performance of a weak classifier by aggregating multiple hypotheses generated across different distributions of the training data. Some predefined functions for visualization and basic operations are provided, but you will have to program the key algorithms yourself. During the examination with the la...